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Dive into our curated collection of Excel wisdom. Whether you're a beginner or aiming to become a power user, these insights will help you work smarter and faster.

Master Excel: Essential Tips & Techniques

Browse through key insights to enhance your spreadsheet skills.

XLOOKUP: Modern Data Lookup
Formulas
Intermediate

XLOOKUP simplifies finding data. It's flexible, easy, and replaces VLOOKUP/HLOOKUP.

Conditional Summing: SUMIF/SUMIFS
Formulas
Beginner

SUMIF for single criterion sums, SUMIFS for multiple. Great for targeted financial summaries.

Graceful Errors: IFERROR
Formulas
Beginner

Display custom messages or values if a formula errs (e.g., #DIV/0!), keeping sheets clean.

Combine Text: TEXTJOIN & CONCAT
Formulas
Intermediate

TEXTJOIN concatenates with delimiter, ignoring empties. CONCAT is simpler for direct joining.

Dynamic Arrays: UNIQUE & SORT
Formulas
Intermediate

Leverage UNIQUE for distinct values and SORT to order them automatically. Requires newer Excel versions.

Powerful Lookups: INDEX & MATCH
Formulas
Advanced

INDEX & MATCH offer a robust and flexible alternative to VLOOKUP for complex data retrieval.

Date & Time: TODAY, NOW, DATEDIF
Formulas
Beginner

Work with current dates/times. Calculate differences between dates for durations or age.

Text Manipulation: LEFT, RIGHT, MID, LEN
Formulas
Intermediate

Extract parts of text strings, or find their length. Essential for cleaning and parsing data.

Intro to PivotTables
Data Analysis
Beginner

Summarize, analyze, and explore large datasets with a few clicks using PivotTables.

Interactive Filters: Slicers
Data Analysis
Intermediate

Slicers provide buttons to filter data in Tables, PivotTables, and Charts dynamically.

Automated Entry: Flash Fill
Productivity
Beginner

Excel's Flash Fill automatically completes data when it senses a pattern, saving manual effort.

Quick Styling: Format Painter
Productivity
Beginner

Double-click Format Painter to copy formatting (font, color, borders) to multiple places.

Choosing Chart Types
Visualization
Beginner

Understand when to use bar, line, pie, or scatter charts to best convey your data story.

In-Cell Charts: Sparklines
Visualization
Intermediate

Sparklines are tiny charts within a cell, providing quick visual data trends.

Toggle Filters: Ctrl+Shift+L
Shortcuts
Beginner

Quickly add or remove filters from a data range. A massive time-saver.

Repeat Action/Cycle Refs: F4
Shortcuts
Intermediate

F4 repeats your last action or cycles cell reference types ($A$1, A$1) in formulas.

Conditional Formatting Basics
Formatting
Beginner

Highlight cells based on values using rules like "greater than" or color scales.

Excel Tables: Ctrl+T
Formatting
Beginner

Format data as an Excel Table (Ctrl+T) for structured references, easy formatting, and auto-expansion.